1. Insights into cell-free therapeutic approach: Role of stem cell "soup-ernatant".
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Raik S, Kumar A, and Bhattacharyya S
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- Animals, Cell Differentiation, Extracellular Vesicles metabolism, Humans, Mitochondria metabolism, Stem Cell Transplantation adverse effects, Stem Cell Transplantation methods, Stem Cells metabolism, Translational Research, Biomedical, Extracellular Vesicles transplantation, Mitochondria transplantation, Regenerative Medicine methods, Stem Cells cytology
- Abstract
Current advances in medicine have revolutionized the field of regenerative medicine dramatically with newly evolved therapies for repair or replacement of degenerating or injured tissues. Stem cells (SCs) can be harvested from different sources for clinical therapeutics, which include fetal tissues, umbilical cord blood, embryos, and adult tissues. SCs can be isolated and differentiated into desired lineages for tissue regeneration and cell replacement therapy. However, several loopholes need to be addressed properly before this can be extended for large-scale therapeutic application. These include a careful approach for patient safety during SC treatments and tolerance of recipients. SC treatments are associated with a number of risk factors and require successful integration and survival of transplanted cells in the desired microenvironment with concurrent tissue regeneration. Recent studies have focused on developing alternatives that can replace the cell-based therapy using paracrine factors. The development of stem "cell free" therapies can be devoted mainly to the use of soluble factors (secretome), extracellular vesicles, and mitochondrial transfer. The present review emphasizes on the paradigms related to the use of SC-based therapeutics and the potential applications of a cell-free approach as an alternative to cell-based therapy in the area of regenerative medicine., (© 2017 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.)
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- 2018
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